The ASP.NET Identity system is designed to replace the previous ASP.NET Membership and Simple Membership systems. It includes profile support, OAuth integration, works with OWIN, and is included with the ASP.NET templates shipped with Visual Studio 2013.

This tutorial shows how to create a simple To-Do application and associate To-Do items with users from ASP.NET Identity. In other words, the tutorial shows how you can mix and match Entity Framework Code First Models for application-specific data with the user data from ASP.NET Identity.

When you create a New ASP.NET Project in VS 2013 and choose Individual Accounts, the template shows how you can login with Social providers such as Microsoft Account, Facebook, Google and Twitter. When you login with these Social Providers such as Facebook, you can request more information about the user such as the User’s picture, friends etc. and if the user allows your app to access this data then you can get this information and provide a rich experience in your site.

This link opens the first in a series of videos about Azure Active Directory, presented by Scott Hanselman and the Microsoft program manager for Azure Active Directory, Vittorio Bertocci. The videos are in the Azure Friday series, and the others in the series can be found at http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Windows-Azure-Friday

This tutorial shows you how to update a Web Forms sample application to add an administrator role and use ASP.NET Identity. It also shows you how to implement an administration page from which the administrator can add and remove products from the website.

ASP.NET Identity is a totally rewritten framework that brings the ASP.NET membership system into the modern era. ASP.NET Identity makes it easier to integrate different authentication systems such as local username, password as well as social logins such as Facebook, Twitter etc. It also gives you greater control over persisting data to your backend technology of choice. ASP.NET Identity is a game changer by bringing in more modern authentication systems such as Two-Factor Authentication. You can use ASP.NET Identity to secure Web Apps as well as Web APIs.

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